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Subjects: Thermonuclear fusion, Containment of a thermonuclear plasma, Heating of a plasma, Z pinch: I. Early developments, II. Fast pinch, Theta pinch, Mirror machines, Stellarator, Miscellaneous devices, Plasma physics, Diagnostics. Chapter titles: Topology of wave-normal surfaces, Waves in a cold uniform plasma, Energy flow and accessibility, Kruskal-Schwarzschild solutions for a bounded plasma, Free and forced oscillations of a cold cylindrical plasma, Plasma models with discrete structure, Longitudinal oscillations in a plasma of continuous structure, Derivation of the theory for a hot plasma in a magnetic field, Some applications of the equivalent dielectric tensor, Reflection and absorption of waves in a hot inhomogeneous plasma. The Landau (Fokker-Planck) approximation, Properties of the Landau equation, The ring approxi-mation, Binary correlations in the ring approximation, The general description of a plasma in the ring approximation, The equilibrium state, Non-equilibrium stationary states and the theory of transport coefficients. (Part 2) Quantum-statistical systems: The general diagram method for quantum gases, Short-time behavior of quantum plasmas and the quantum Vlassov equation, Long-time behavior of quantum plasmas, The quantum statistical ring approximation, Binary correlations and the equilibrium state for an electron gas. Contents: Magnetic and Stellar Solar granulation The magnetic The solar corona and the inter-planetary and x from Solar radio bursts Stellar atmospheres: Magnetic, Mass loss from Pulsating stars Novae and explosive variables The content of galaxies: Stars and gas Extragalactic radio sources Cosmology Radio telescopes Celestial mechnics Dynamics of galaxies King), Interstellar dust that present both experimental and theoretical results in molecular and macroscopic aspects of plasma-behavior dynamics.

At least once a week, I need a brief account of an environmental health area that falls outside my specialty. At those times, I usually am more likely to find what I need in Moeller's second edition (1997) than in any of my other reference books. This third edition maintains the strengths of the two earlier editions: brief and clear presentations and broad coverage of environmental health. This edition contains 20 chapters. It begins with an overview and traditional chapters on toxicology and epidemiology. These three are followed by reviews of water, air, and solid waste. About halfway through the 600-page book, the chapters begin to incorporate topics that some environmental health volumes do not cover, such as rodents and insects, food, injury control, environmental economics and law, risk assessment, standards and monitoring, energy, and disasters. A sizeable portion of this material is new or updated for this third edition. For example, you will find new or redone sections on indoor air quality, environmental justice, endangered species, multiple chemical sensitivities, electromagnetic radiation, disasters, and ergonomics. In other words, this book is environmental health in the broadest sense of the word: It is not just pollution control. At the end of each chapter, the author adds an interesting "general outlook" section that summarizes his views of the future.
Two of the most useful chapters are those on electromagnetic radiation and environmental law. The former begins with a description of the electromagnetic spectrum and uses that as a springboard to differentiate among risks associated with different forms of radiation. The chapter briefly reviews highly amplified risks about automobile traffic radar and cell phones and about electromagnetic fields from overhead lines. It also presents useful sections about radon, medical and dental applications, and nuclear materials from electricity-generating stations and nuclear weapons testing. The overall goal is to help readers understand that not all radiation is to be equally dreaded and that some of the most feared radioactive elements are less dangerous than their less feared counterparts. The chapter on environmental law is helpful because the author tries hard to be comprehensive. Moeller offers lists of laws, brief comments on what the laws do and do not accomplish, the trajectory of laws during the last century, and their implementation. This is followed immediately by a chapter on environmental standards that is a good sequel to the law chapter.
Every textbook has limitations. The most obvious is that it takes so long to write one that some of the material is bound to be out of date by the time the book is published. Hence, I would like to have seen more about globalization, pollution prevention, damages to natural resources, terrorism, and life-cycle costs than this edition offers. The author does not ignore these; they are mentioned here and there in the book, but not to the extent needed.
If I have a problem with the book, it is the failure to present a separate chapter on risk perception. I realize that environmental scientists want to operate on the premise that decisions are made using rational thinking processes based on scientific evidence. Unfortunately, as a person who has been studying environmental policy for over 30 years, I say unequivocally that risk perception, trust, and mental models of risk have a major impact on environmental health policies. A chapter needs to be added that includes why people dread some hazards (nuclear weapons, terrorism, handguns) and so their risk is amplified, whereas other hazards are much more tolerable to the public and to elected officials (tobacco, alcohol). Despite this critique, I really like this book, I use it myself, and I will use it in my senior-level undergraduate environmental health course.

MICHAEL GREENBERG
Michael Greenberg is professor and associate dean of the faculty at the E.J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University. His research and teaching focus on environmental health policy; much of it is on clean-up and reuse of contaminated sites in distressed neighborhoods.

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